6410/Following the Rat Trail

Following the Rat Trail
Date of Scene:	01 June 2021
Location:	Abandoned Warehouse - Chinatown
Synopsis:	April, Mikey and Harley go visit the warehouse Rat Catcher told them would have clues on where the Rat King is at. It's spooky as all heck, and why is this warehouse looking like some medical facility? Before they can find all the answers they want they are attacked by the foot and pursued by a mysterious new opponent. Leatherhead!
Cast of Characters:	April O'Neil, Harley Quinn, Michelangelo

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April O'Neil has posed:
The day was set and the News Van was borrowed from April's cameraman, Vernon Fenwick. He'd told her to 'be careful with it'.

The News Van was a great vehicle to get around in incognito'ish. April and Harley had made sure to pick up Mikey in it, even having some food and drink i nthe back of it waiting for him. The drive to Gotham had been pretty standard, and they were arriving just after nightfall. April in her biker leather jacket, a black baseball hat on her head, and a pair of dark blue jeans on her lower body, a black tshirt. Her messenger bag is sitting beside her seat in the van.

"Okay, so this is the place." She says as she drives up on the warehouse, parking the van across the street under an orange street light.

"Now, we're just here to like... snoop around, not you know, get in to a any huge fights, right?" She asks the other two with her on this journey.

Harley Quinn has posed:
Incognito. Surveillance. Spy Stuff.

All things that Harley excels at! Because look at that magnificent black and pink leather jacket. And at those beautiful shorty shorts made of cut-up blue jeans. Or the stockings. Or even the sneakers. Subtle, right?! At least she hadn't brought the hyenas. They were shy about being driven around in a new vehicle. And prone to leave 'gifts' within. So wisely they had been left behind. A pity though!

"Ya tell me! Ya wanna go in John Wayne and shoot shit up? Or we goin' James Bond? Surveillance and THEN shoot shit up?" was there a third choice?

But Harley had come equipped with her trusty baseball bat, binoculars as needed, and even a spare bat for April!

She looks out into the emptied streets, dark out, barely a street lamp that hasn't been broken down which gives the place an even loomier look.

The warehouse is an old one, red-bricked. The windows appear intact though so whatever this is it seems as if it's used, or at least rented.

Michelangelo has posed:
     Food and drink are probably more than enough for Michelangelo to go with the ladies, noshing on a slice while twirling his nunchuck on his finger. "Oh yeah, a turtle could get used to this..." Happy Mikey.

  As they got there, and of course the question was posited to the two...Mikey could only laugh a little before chiming in. "Have you ever heard of a noisy ninja?"

  Putting his nunchucks back in his belt, Mikey popped open the back of the van, and peeked before hopping out to get into the shadows while everyone heads to the warehouse. Luckily, there's a lot of shadow to hide in.

April O'Neil has posed:
April is pulling her messenger bag up from between the front seats and draping it over her shoulder, a little sleeve sewn in to the strap which she slides the baseball bat in to... something Harley had gotten her in to doing, even though Casey sort've started the whole idea a year before Harley was rooming with the Reporter.

She exhales at the both of them and just glances up in the mirror to see Mikey getting out of the van. "Isn't that the name of a firecracker? The Noisy Ninja?" She shakes her head and pops the door open, showing Harlye a grin. "We're just lost college girls, looking around for the party we were told was out here." She tells Harley their 'cover story'.

Stepping out on to the street, April in her dark clothing, her hat covering her face in shadows, starts to walk across the street toward the brick place. she's already dug her phone out of her pocket and is staring at the screen as she gets her camera ready.

"Okay, so whatever we find here, we're just on Recon. Recon, I say." She tells them both, knowing Mikey is within earshot in the shadows. She glances over at Harley then. "Do you wanna do a circle around the joint first?" She asks quietly.

Harley Quinn has posed:
A look to April, then to herself. "Slim chance that one will go here in Gotham." Maybe in NYC she could pass as someone not Harley Quinn. Here in Gotham? Eh, hard to sell that one. But like Han Solo she doesn't care about the odds! So she wiggles herself out of the van, her little bag of tricks on one side and the baseball bat slung over a shoulder on a nice little 'sheath' for it.

With the Noisy Ninja going one way she follows alongside April towards the warehouse, a nod given to April as she suggests circling about. "Like the Rat Catcha said I am yoh faithful secretary, Villainous April! I shall follow yoh lead." she beaming a rather wide, pearly smile back at the reporter.

"Say, Mikey ..." She murmurs over to the darkness, "... when we gettin' back ta watchin' Dawnson's Creek?" Yes, Harley. This is the best time to be asking about that....

As they start to roam about the warehouse the place appears close, no lights. Maybe close for the night? Besides the front door there's at least a couple of other entrances on the sides and one thing they can note is that it looks as if they have been used. They don't seem rusted, in fact they appear very much sturdy and secure. But as for people? None!

The only exception is a black cat that is going past the street and hisses at them before running off. Damn interlopers walking through it's domain. Hmph.

Michelangelo has posed:
     "I think it is. But it's not a real ninja, Ape." Mikey continued on his path before piping up with an answer for Harley. "I mean...whenever really?" He answers before going quiet for the most part, except for the low humming of the Dawson's Creek theme.

  The turtle takes a look at the newish doors and puts a finger to his chin. "Dudes, you think...this doesn't look like everything else? Like, serious lack of dinge?"

April O'Neil has posed:
April's attentio is first on the building as she listens tot he two of them, smirking softly at being in the lead, but ultiamtely her blue eyes go to the cat that walks their path. "That's ominous..." The reporter mutters stepping up on to the curb outside of the warehouse. "At least this one isn't locked behind a fence..." How many warehouses has April scouted anyway?

Loooots, with varying degrees of success. Don't ask about the kidnappings.

April's eyes are on the building, non-chalantly looking around for security cameras as she holds her phone up and starts to snap pics of the place. "Leo's gonna want as many pictures as possible for tactical.. whatever he calls it." She mutters.

Mikey makes her actually 'look' at the place though. "It's kinda nice, as far as... warehouses go, I guess?"

Pic snap, pic snap... She leads them toward the front but on a wide angle around to the driveway that circles around behind the building...

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Oh, I brought a wiwahcuttah.." Harley says in that casual tone of hers, tapping her bag fondly. "Right next to the explosives..." because of course. Another beamy smile. The clownette casts a look up at the windows, then to the doors. "Seems like this place ain't that abandoned afterall.." that makes her sus too. What kind of intel had Rat Catcher given them anyway?! But her baby blue eyes narrow and she makes sure to go quieter now alongside them. No more loud talkin' at least.

The snaps keep coming, taking the various angles. All very dark, all very quiet. Eerily so perhaps.

But .., was that a sillouette up above on one of the windows when April takes a snapshot of it? The light appears to have shown whoever it was, April and Mikey able to see it..

But once they look again the figure appears to have disappeared.

Ominous!

"Are we goin' in?" Harley asks, holding her hands over her mouth as if to talk quieter.

Michelangelo has posed:
     Michelangelo took time to photobomb April just one time, giving a thumbs up and flashing a big grin at the camera.

  That was until the figure in the light had appeared and disappeared just as fast. "Umm, dudes...I think there might be one of those ghosteses in there..."

  Had any of his brothers been with them, they'd probably give him a light smack on the coconut for that one. "Anyone else getting a wiggins from all this crud?"

Harley Quinn has posed:
They had found item from the Rat Catcher himself that this was a warehouse of interest. Clues to where the Rat King had come from, or at least a base of operations! So it was time to dig in. And dig they went to do. Recruiting Mikey's help they have reached this nice little warehouse in Gotham's Chinatown. It looks pretty normal, old even, but the windows are all up. The doors ..., they look sturdy, with good, new locks in. Something is off about it all..

They have gone around the premises with April taking pics, Harley talking about all the bombs and the wirecutter she brought along to help and Mikey apparently .., seeing ghosts?

A figure up above on one of the warehouse windows.. But it's not there anymore. Were they being watched?

April O'Neil has posed:
April continues to walk around the building, though when Mikey spoke of ghosts, the reporter looked up to the windows and stared in through them. "Ghosts aren't real." She says, even though she gets reports about them all the time on her podcast... she's just telling HERSELF that right now.

"I was snooping around a place like this last summer, and they had fake ghosts setup that would jump at the window if you tripped a sensor. Scared the craaaap out of me." She mutters softly to Harley, and Mikey if he's still close enough.

Her eyes go forward then and she nods up ahead. "Lets see if there's a way in that isn't one of the main doors. Mikey, if you can scale and drop us a line too that might help..."

Harley Quinn has posed:
Oooo, April is giving Harley ideas! "I am gonna set that up on the apartment. Imagine all the scares we can throw around..!" She exclaims with glee, "It will be the best haunted house o' all o' Booklyn!" arms open wide to the sides. Almost as if they weren't in a stealth mission into some really spooky warehouse. And ghosts? "Mikey, like April says. Ghosts don't exist! It's normally raging spirits, or shadow fiends. My Hermione friend tol' me that!" because of course she has magic friends. Harley knows everyone!

As they move around the house there's a few places they can take advantage of to go in. A window high up they can use to go up on, to which Harley points. "How about that one?!" and damn right it's the same the 'ghost' was in.

But other than that there's some side doors, and one on the back. All with reinforced locks of course. Harley does leave it to them though!

She is here to kick stuff and explode ass.. Wait.., the other way around.

Michelangelo has posed:
     Mikey stops in his tracks, looking back to Harley when she talks about ghosts. "See? I was right. Ghosts are real."

  When the suggestion is to go through the window where the ghost had been, he can only give a grimace. "Why it gotta be the one with the ghost?"

  "Ok. I'm gonna go in, but if you hear a dude scream, you know who to call." He says, before climbing up to the window, peeking in, and if clear, heads inside.

April O'Neil has posed:
April grimaces when Harley tries to help by explaining that there are ghosts, just really really bad ones. She sighs softly and starts to walk further away down the alley until she hears Mikey going for the window back behind her.

"Mikey, wait." She says up to him in a loud whisper. "Take my camera! If there's a ghost, get pictures of it! They'll get me a ton'a hits on Youtube... and he's gone..."

April sighs as she sees nothing but shadow where there once was a turtle. "He's pretty spry for a big guy." She does note of his skeelz.

Her eyes go back to Harley then and she moves to stand beside her. "Should we wait here for him?" She asks the Clownette. She's well aware that locked doors don't stand a chance against Harley Quinn..

Harley Quinn has posed:
"Did you just go full Offspring on me, April?" Harley says with narrowed eyes at one of April's lines, but then she is tittering, holding her hands in front of her mouth. "But ya know .., I was gonna say foh ya ta take a rope and hoist us up!" this to Mikey... If he listens. He may not! Ah well.

"I am just glad he is the non-grumpy ninja... not like Raph! He'd probably be grumpin' all the way up the wall. GRump grump, damn ghost, grump grump..."

As Mikey goes up and enters that room it's rather dark, but he seems to be in a storage room of some sort. Papers are stacked about but more importantly there seems to be medical utensils there. Vials with some liquid inside and cabinets on one side. The door ahead is ominously open but other than that the darkness doesn't allow for more vision to pierce through. Not even in the nice moonlight up in the sky.

Harley will wait a moment to see if Mikey gets them a 'lift'. But if not..., it will be time to go the non-subtle entrance right through one of the doors. She is even cracking her knuckles now. "Lets give him a moment. If we heah him scream we go in!"

Michelangelo has posed:
     And just like that, he was in. But where a turtle went in expecting a ghost, there was only...."Doctor Bauman's Miracle Orth...orth...Orthodontist? What the shell?" Orthotics. Good one Mikey.

  Before long he found something to anchor the rope to. "Coming down!" Before he tossed the rope down and let it dangle off the window.

  The turtle held the package of orthotics in his hand trying to figure out what was going on while awaiting the other two.

April O'Neil has posed:
April snickers at the bit about Raph. "He means well, he's just... his anger side is too quick to come out." She always will defend them, every one of them, even if she's well aware of their faults. Except Mikey,he has no faults.

When the rope comes out and down the building April smiles big. "Oh, awesome. Wait... god... I hate rope climbing, it hurts your hands..." She whines as she walks toward it and takes hold of it. She tugs on it to test it then adjsuts her messenger bag and looks back to Harley. "Come on, lets do this!"

April grabs the rope with both hands and jumps up it! Then her shoes slip on the wall and she slides back down to the ground.

She clears her throat. "Ahem. Okay. One more time...."

The Reporter tries again, and with a bit of flailing feet she starts up the wall toward the window and tossing herself through it!

Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley watches as April goes about trying to climb. She taps her foot on the ground as if impatient, tsking. "We need ta woik on yoh climbin' skills!" because sure, everyone should know the basics about B&E. The first sleep makes her move in to help April with a boost and then she starts climbing right after the reporter.

"And ya talk about my big butt...!" she exclaims from below where indeed she can comment about such things!

Yet eventually they do reach the top, Harley slinking in all quiet and ninja-like, a nod to Mikey. "Good job, favorite ninja." she whispers to him with a thumbs up.

Ahead it's dark but Harley takes out a flashlight from her bag of tricks, turning it on after having to bap it a couple of times. "It's like one o' those terroh movies. This is gonna fail at the woist possible time." ominous.. "But for now it's holdin'!" she waves the lantern around a bit and then points it around.

"Lots of medical stuff, files... Eh... A laptop ovah theah, maybe we should take it.." she mutters, moving in to get the laptop and stuff it inside her pack. Another look around and then she is out onto the corridor, pointing here and there. The warehouse though? Inside it looks more like a medical facility than an actual one... Which is weird as hell.

"I have a bad feelin' about this..."

The sound of something clattering is heard in the distance. "Lets go, we need to figure out whats goin' on heah..." tenacious Harley!

Michelangelo has posed:
     The Orange head-banded turtle tossed away the orthotic package as the others arrived. "Welcome to Mikey's house of...Orthodontists." He greets with a big green thumb up. "So, no ghosts, but this looks like that place from Return of the Living Dead." He comments, before following Harley to get to more of the old warehouse.

  "So...before the zombies start walking around looking for turtle brains, let's get the info we need. Pleeeeeasse?" Mikey adds, the barefoot turtle stepping gently on the floor. "What are we supposed to find? Like a mad scientist's lab or somethin'?" Yep, he sure has been paying attention this whole time. Or is it a clever strategy to avoid admitting he is a teensy bit scared?

April O'Neil has posed:
April is of course there to help Harley in through the window. She smirks at theo ther's commentary about her posterior but otherwise just tries to focus ont he business at-hand. She also has a little flashlight that was given to her by one of her podcast viewers to help her in dark places, it has multiple settings. "Mine better not die, it was supposed to be the best..." She mutters, not realizing that Harley just swiped a laptop as she's mildly distracted by the place.

"You're not kiddin', Mikey." April mutters about the creepy place. "But then again, what medical place wouldn't look scary in the dark?" She turns her light when she hears something in the distance.

"Maybe it's just the air conditioner..." She says of the noises while walking out further in to the building.

April shines her light around in the dark ahead of her, her other hand still holdin gher trusty phone....

Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley does a 360 with her lantern when she hears whatever it was in the distance, jumping up scaredly! "I hate horrah movies..." she admits to the others. "It's only fun when it's me doin' the horrah!" like being the clownette princess of crime.

"And we wanna find out wheah the Rat King came from! Or wheah he is stayin' at...! Somethin' about the guy.. But I dunno about this place..." she looking here and there, pale face looking like a zombie indeed!

"Lets check this out.." She points to a double door, opening it by crushing the lock as if it was paper, it giving way to some operation room. Someone has been doing 'dark' stuff here. The place looks somewhat ransacked though, on the wall a mark of someone's large hand. Someone punched it? But the fist looks rather large. They can spot a small dossier on the corner that seems to have escaped the ransack though..

But this is also when behind them they hear movement on the door. They aren't alone. And turning they can see the figures there.

Dressed in dark clothing? Masks? The Foot?! They appear ready to attack.

Michelangelo has posed:
     Mikey keeps going forward now that Harley had crushed the lock on the double doors.

  Mikey reached his hand toward the imprint in the wall and compared sizes. "Oh duuude, that's a big boy...remind me not to piss 'em off." He offers up before turning around, his eyes flaring open for a second before he reaches for his nunchucks, and heads up for the dark-clothed assailants.

  "Back off dudes! This is our creepy abandoned warehouse!" Was that even a T-pose for dominance? Nah, but he was doing his part to intimidate, and defend.

April O'Neil has posed:
April is not far behind Mikey, though she hears Harley. "So this is why you won't ever watch Stephen King movies with me..." She whispers to Harley, loudly. "Not even the Langoliers and its not even really scary... it's just bad, in a good way."

She turns her light toward Harls when she hears the door lock get broken. "Maybe this is his day job?" She says of the Rat King.

But when their foes are ... revealed... April takes a step back and lowers her light. "Oh, shit." She says quietly, forgetting that she has that bat on her bag over her shoulder, for now at least!

Harley Quinn has posed:
"The only Stephen King shit I am willing ta see with you is 'It'!" Harley announces. And why? Because the villain is a clown? Most likely. Harley ain't afraid of no clowns! Yo!

"Day job? As in bein' a creep doctah conductin' experiments..?!" she looks at Mikey comparing sizes with the hand on the wall, wrinkling her nose. "I mean, ain't that a night job..?" but whatever other considerations she may have about it are stopped when those figures are there at the door. What the heck! And that was totally a grab for dominance in Harley's view. "Nice one, Mikey! Show 'em!" but they don't seem to care too much. Knives flash out, staffs. They move in! A couple swinging their knives at Mikey, trying to find an opening to stab his ..., shell?

Harley draws out her bat, starting to fend off against the guy with the staff.

Which leaves one with a tonfa that tries to weasel past Mikey and Harley to reach April.

"Apes! The bat! And get that dossier ovah theah!"

Michelangelo has posed:
     The turtle with the nunchucks has them twirling and whipping around himself before long but his own personal style of defense is even funnier. Mikey doesn't quite deflect blades as much as he dodges them. Even one going for his face gets the turtle to retract his head into his shell. "Man I love being a turtle!" Doing a goofy split to dodge another knife. "JCVD ain't got nothin' on me!" He comments before using his hard shell assist in a fast leg sweep to the two knife wielders.

  When he uses those nunchucks to knock one knife out of their hand, and an elbow drop from the top rope to take out the other assailant!

April O'Neil has posed:
"Oh, man, I wish the rest of the guys were here now." April mutters, worried that Mikey might get hurt, or that Harley will-- well, no, Harley will be fine. She's always fine.

April jumps when sone of the Foot breaks the line and starts rushing toward her, but Harls' calls out for the bat and Apes remembers it.

"Crap." She says, reaching up quickly and pulling on the bat, but it is stuck in the harness... so she yanks AGAIN! This time the bat comes flying over her shoulder and she throws it at the charging Foot soldier!

The bat whirls end over end and slams him dead in the nose!

April winces at the sound that makes, and the man's body crumpling on the floor. But then she turns and rusn toward where this dossier is. "Night job, this is definitely his night job!" April shouts, jumping over some of the Foot soldiers that Mikey is dispatching!

Harley Quinn has posed:
That's some slick moves out of Mikey! Smooth! Harley is in luuuuuuv. The knives strike here and there but find only empty air and with those nunchuks moves, along with the leg sweeps and then the finisher with the elbow drop it means those dudes are dispatched quickly and effective!

And subverting expectations Harley is the one getting hit in this case! Staff strike to the head, which she sends her sprawling back! All because she was looking at April doing her superthrow move! "Good job, Ape--" *BONG!*

So now you have an unconscious Harley. A guy with a staff clearly ready to get beaten down and ..., that's it!

Michelangelo has posed:
     "NICE ONE AP...oh crud." Yeah Mikey, that wasn't a Foot thug unconscious, that was a Harley.

  When Michelangelo gets up from the ground, he hustles over to the staff-goon. "Hey buddy, this is -my- night job!" He comments before reaching out for that bo staff, trying to grasp it hard enough to throw its wielder towards April, teeing up a home run. "Fastball, right down the center, Ape!"

April O'Neil has posed:
April is holding on to the dossier and rushing toward where Harley gets downed. "Harley!" She shouts through the madness, backflashes to when the Shredder was around in full force with his street ninja gang... apparently still in operation!

Mikey calling out to her has her stopping and seeing hte ninja he sends tumbling toward her, she steps back and yanks the file cabinet open in front of the Foot soldier's face! BANG, he runs right in to it with a loud clanging thud!

April winces again and reaches down to pick her bat up off of the floor, then jogs over to Harley. "Come on, lets get out of here. We probably got enough evidence to prove this place is up to something, rigth"

Harley Quinn has posed:
Harley is still a big groggy, her eyes without much focus and slowly coming to. She reaches up to try and touch April's face. But she touches her 'double' instead. Which means she is touching thin air. "Woah, two Aprils..." but then she shakes her head, baps a palm on her temple and sits up. "Man, I was hopin' foh zombies and we get pijama guys. Fuckin' pijama parties..." and she without her feather pillow to hit people with it.

"Alright, we got the stuffs?! Lets go!" She steps out, looking down one 'lane', then the other. "Coast is cleah.." a look back to Mikey and April. "So ..., we just need ta make it back ta that room we weah at and ..." it's when that sound they heard earlier that it seemed was something falling on the ground is heard again. Quite closer this time. The figure in the dark? It looks massive... And those hands.., or are they claws? They are quite similar to that marking on the wall they found. Face? Elongated. In fact it looks to be an anthro creature, a crocodile. Eyes glint in the dark and it's tail baps on the metal walls again, creating that noise they heard earlier.

Harley says in her best Gandalf impersonation. "Run, you fools..." she is already doing so, springing towards that room where they had the escape window!

Michelangelo has posed:
     "Hey Harl! Let's blow this pop stand!" Mikey chimes in before the croc-man makes an appearance. "Uhh, that's not a rat." Offers up the Party Dude before running along, making sure he would be the last one to reach the upper room where the rope is. "C'mon c'mon, closing time, we gotta get the heck outta here!"

  Anyone who ever bet on the hare over the turtle now would be ripping up their betting chits, damn, that's a fast turtle.

April O'Neil has posed:
April grabs Harley's hand out of mid air as she's trying to touch her face, but ends up just touching the ghost-April. "Harley, come on, we gotta go" She urged her up to her feet and they set off, holding the bat in her hand and the dossier under her arm. "Mikey, come on come on!" She shouts after the turtle behind her.

But when the ... dinosaur? Makes its appearance the reporter's eyes just go super wide. "Holy shit." She utters, before the motion of her companions on this adventure garner her attention and urge her toward the exit. "Oh god, oh god." April mutters as she runs at full speed through the hallway and to the room they climbed in through.

What comes outside is the sound of a young woman shouting as she leaps out a window and free falls toward a dumpster filled with bags of what she hopes is office papers in garbage bags....

Harley Quinn has posed:
The clownette is running as if she was being pursued by death itself! Which hey, a claw from that thing might just mean that too! And as they run they hear the creature snap it's large jaws, launching itself at speed after them, one claw still skidding off Mikey's shell as he is the last to jump down to the ground!

Harley lands on the dumpster right next to April's, a cloud of dust, dirt and just plain ol' trash. "Ugh ..., I just know all the tastes these guys' order in pizzas. And PINEAPPLE is one o' 'em!" important facts. The Foot likes pineapple pizza. No wonder they are villains...

Of course that she *should* worry about a big ass crocodile jumping down on them. But looking up it hasn't pursued out of the warehouse. Lucky much?!

Harley gets out of her trash bin, even as April appears to have had more luck with her own dumpster. Office papers mostly, and some garbage bags. Someone won't have to recycle clothes!

"Run, run!" And it was time to get out o' dodge, regroup back home and figure out what they had found out in the warehouse. But it clearly involved the Foot!

Michelangelo has posed:
     Mikey's shell gets a nice scratch in it, thank everything that it is so resilient, even if there's now a good gash in it, the soft turtle parts inside are still safe and sound!

  Mikey's instincts kick in, as he jumps out and retreats into his shell for the landing, just a four foot long turtle shell thudding into the dumpster filled with..."Oh gross, pineapple!" Coming from the turtle who eats gummy worm, mushroom, and pepperoni pizza. That was about when his appendages popped back out and he was on the move again, the orange bandanna making a streak in the darkness of night. "Let's gooooooo!"

April O'Neil has posed:
April is still groaning coming out of her dumpster and tossing bags of papers around as she does so. "Ugh, this one had a coffee cup in it." She says as she drops out of the dumpster and pulls her shirt and jacket down over her waist agai, covering her midriff up from the papers falling out from under her clothing.

She looks up to see Mikey fall, and winces at the sight of it before her eyes go to Harley and she sees her roomie covered in food waste. "EWw..." She says. "Okay, yeah, lets go, before that thing Kool-Aid-Man's his way through the damn wall!"

The reporter is running again, her boots splashing on the thin layer of gross alley water, she runs around Mikey's shell as he pops back out of it. "Legs goooo!" She shouts over her shoulder.

As the trio are running back to the news van, April has to add. "Get in the back, both of you! I don't wanna ride with smelly garbage people!" How nice!

She has the keys out of her pocket and is opening the doors up with a click of hte auto locks, soon they'll be off, with the engines of the van rumbling loudly!